Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sea Water in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sea Water is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 27 products, most often face care.

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What does Sea Water do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sea Water holds water in the skin or the product and dissolves other ingredients. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant and solvent.

humectantsolvent

What other names and numbers does Sea Water have?

CosIng reference
92544

Which products contain Sea Water?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sea Water in the ingredient lists of 27 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care and skincare.

  • Face care2
  • Skincare2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 9 · United States 7 · Norway 5 · Turkey 3.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sea Water turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsHumectants

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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